Nonuniform cleavage cracking across persistent grain boundary
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The nonuniform characteristics of cleavage cracking across high-angle grain boundaries are analyzed in considerable detail. To break through a grain boundary, a cleavage front would first penetrate across the boundary at its central part, with the side sections being locally arrested. Such a front behavior causes a strong crack trapping effect and a large increase in required crack growth driving force. Eventually, as the persistent grain boundary areas are separated apart, the crack front bypasses the grain boundary. The critical condition of the unstable crack propagation is determined by both the local fracture resistance and its increase rate with respect to the expansion of the break-through window. The grain boundary toughness is dominated by the effective grain boundary ductility. 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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